Sales Specialist

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Other
Company
Christofle Silver Inc.

Who We Are

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Since 1830, Christofle has created with elegance and know-how an exceptional table art, refined jewelry, and home accessories. Maison Christofle uses entirely handmade manufacturing. The precious trades of spinning, embossing, carving, engraving, perpetuated by its craftsmen immortalize the qualities of elegance and excellence. It is this irreplaceable expertise perpetuated by highly qualified craftsmen transmitted from teacher to student that constitutes the living heritage of Christofle. 

Who You Are

The Sales Specialist is responsible for delivering best in class client service, achieving individual sales goals, building lasting client relationship as well as understanding Boutique operating processes. Upon joining, they will receive in-depth training about Christofle’s history, company culture, and product catalog. This position reports to the Boutique Manager and works with the Customer Service, Finance, Visual Merchandising, Marketing and Logistics teams.

What You'll Do

* Sales Performance

  • Achieve and exceed individual Sales Goals
  • Maintain a strong drive

* Client Development

  • Ensure a welcoming client focused environment, which includes offering best in class service, in person, over the phone and through electronic communication.
  • Develop local and international client book with the ability to recruit and develop top clients, inclusive of interior designers, estate managers, corporations.
  • Demonstrate strong product expertise, engage clients through the details and stories of our products.
  • Assist and support after sales client requests inclusive of engraving and repairs. Act as a referent and provide recommendation that will provide an exceptional client experience.
  • Problem solves in partnership with leadership team to ensure that each client issue properly resolved to the benefit of the business.

* Boutique Operation

  • Maintain visual merchandising and housekeeping standards as well as product care.
  • Responsible for ordering merchandise from France, from our US warehouse, or locating from other boutiques to fulfill orders.
  • Assist in inventory management functions including organizing stock on floor and stockroom, transfers, receiving, UPS and messenger shipping.
  • Participate in all inventory and cycle counts and protect the assets of the Boutique through understanding all complying with operating procedures.
  • Participate in executing all POS transactions, inclusive sales, returns, packing or wrapping customer’s merchandise.

* Lead liaison between RET, Supply Chain, and counterparts in France to design, implement, and oversee best practices: order and product policies, product availability, catalog management, QA and claims, special orders and programs (Talisman, partial gilded, HO, etc).

  • Fielding general inquiries from Retail store teams regarding open orders, ETA’s, product questions, and special-order possibilities.

* Lead liaison between RET, Supply Chain, and counterparts in France to optimize stock across RET portfolio. Align allocations with company directives for maximum turnover.

  • Partnering with France on an ongoing basis to allocate stock and special orders for the Retail Network and proactively follow up on all outstanding orders to get ETAs.
  • Assist in product and novelties performance analysis support for boutiques, RET, and Supply Chain. Novelties Purchase Order and launch management support.
  • Lead liaison for Client Special Orders order management including monitoring/ communicating ETAs.
  • Proactively escalate and monitor concerns to appropriate teammates in USA and overseas.

* Support managers and their store associates with store operations issues so that they could focus on selling.

 

* Understand specifics of retail sales and find ways to support the boutiques by understanding the client’s perspective.

 

* Operations support to external showrooms and consignment customers (Hines, Geary’s)

  • Ring customer sales in D365
  • Purchase order management and fulfillment
  • Log and track sales
  • First point of contact for operations, policies, order and product support. Liaison to other CSI teammates including RET Director.

What You Bring

  • 3 years of Luxury Sales experience required 
  • Excellent selling, clienteling, networking, prospecting, and follow-up skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Read, count, and write to accurately complete all business and client related documentation
  • Ability to adjust priorities and manage time in a fast-paced environment, adaptable to strategies which address evolving business trends
  • Ability to develop strong and lasting relationships with people through strong communication, organization, and follow-through skills
  • Ability to operate all equipment necessary to perform the job, including phone systems, POS systems, computers, and all other office equipment
  • Ability to work varied hours/days, including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed
  • Can stand for extended periods, move, and handle boxes of merchandise and fixtures, must be able to lift at least 30 lbs.

Working conditions

  • Retail Store hours, weekends and on-call as needed
  • Routine computer, phone, scanner, photocopier usage
  • Lifting, carrying, pushing, up to 30 pounds, sometimes heavier using hand truck
  • Climbing stairs, ladders, reaching, bending often with materials in hand
  • Standing for long periods of time
  • Irregular hours especially during peak season and events

What We Offer

Hourly pay rate: $27-$30 per hour depending on experience.

  • Robust healthcare offerings: medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, a Health Savings Account
  • Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, personal, floating, and sick days.
  • 401K + company match
  • Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term
  • Disability, Pet benefits, Commuter Transit & Parking.
  • 30% retail discount.

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